+Invocation Posted October 7, 2018 Posted October 7, 2018 How far back does the Epicanthic Fold stretch on Roshar? I don't think the people on Ashyn had it, since the Shin do not, but how long would it have taken for that to appear? I am also assuming that the development is directly related to protection from grit flung by the highstorms, based on one of the real theories on why it exists. Is that a safe assumption?
Calderis he/him Posted October 7, 2018 Posted October 7, 2018 (edited) 35 minutes ago, Invocation said: How far back does the Epicanthic Fold stretch on Roshar? I don't think the people on Ashyn had it, since the Shin do not, but how long would it have taken for that to appear? I am also assuming that the development is directly related to protection from grit flung by the highstorms, based on one of the real theories on why it exists. Is that a safe assumption? I think it was present before, just not in the people that became the Shin. I don't think that everyone was once Shin. This was a planetary Exodus. I think it was multicultural, and that the Shin, then and now, were one group who were xenophobic and isolationist. Interbreeding may have spread it amongst peoples who didn't have it before... But I don't think it's a wholly new development on Roshar. Edited October 7, 2018 by Calderis
Leyrann Posted October 7, 2018 Posted October 7, 2018 Hasn't Brandon said there have been multiple immigration waves to Roshar?
TrдVψLшR 0115 he/him Posted October 7, 2018 Posted October 7, 2018 Argent [PENDING REVIEW] How many waves of human populations have migrated to Roshar? So I'm thinking the Ashynites coming from Ashyn, right? Was that just the only humans that ever came as a population? Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] It depends on if you count the Iriali? Argent [PENDING REVIEW] That's specifically the one I'm thinking of. Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] They came in a separate migration. Argent [PENDING REVIEW] Not from Ashyn? Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW] Not from Ashyn. Argent [PENDING REVIEW] From whatever the Third Land was.
earthexile Posted October 9, 2018 Posted October 9, 2018 Imagine if New York City was the only group of humans to escape Earth. You would wind up with a ton of white, black, and hispanic people, many of whom lived together and intermarried all the time. There would be somewhat smaller, somewhat more separate communities, like the people from Chinatown. And then there would be even smaller, very isolated communities, like the Orthodox Jewish, who remain private and together because they have a very different concept of how life is supposed to be lived. That's kind of what Roshar looks like to me. There are a couple of races that seem to be everywhere, and familiar with each other, sharing language, religion, writing, and customs about gender and sexuality. There are a couple of somewhat more separate people with somewhat different ways, but who still mixed with the majority, like Horneaters. And then there are the Shin, who totally do their own thing and have their own divergent ideas about how life is supposed to be lived. Roshar could very well be populated by the descendants of one large urban society. I have this idea in my head of a big portal in Times Square that's only going to be open for a few hours. 2
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